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STUDIO AIR 2012: SEMESTER 1
WEEK 04 PROGRESS JOURNAL
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Boolean Patterning
First Row: Changing circle radius.
Second Row: Changing numbers of rows and columns.
Explicit Grids
First Row: Adding more numbers of rows and columns.
Second Row: Changing circle radius.
Surface Grids
First Row: Changing numbers of rows and columns.
Second Row: Changing circle radius and numbers f rows and columns.
Using Sets
First Row: Changing numbers of rows and columns.
Second Row: Reverse of row 1 and changing radius of circles.
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Rotation
First Row: Changing circle density
Second Row: Changing rate of rotation.
Extrusion
First Row: Changing heights of circle columns.
Second Row: Changing numbers of rows and columns
STUDIO AIR 2012: SEMESTER 1 Week
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STUDIO AIR 2012: SEMESTER 1 Week
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Design / Selection Method
While I was generating different shapes of the definitions, I found myself was firstly looking for the shapes that are more attractive to me. Most of them have complex looking, with smooth patterns or variable heights of surfaces.
Then when I start to consider them as architectural structural, problems came out more for those ones were looking better for me. Therefore I started to simplifying the shapes trying to make them more achievable in real life.
“Insteadofsearchingthesolu3onspaceforthesolu3ontoaproblem,theylookforasolu3ontotheproblem.Thiscanbeaccomplishedbyreducingthesizeofthesolu3onspacebyaddingconstraintsun3lallbutafeworperhapsonlyonesolu3onremains,makingtheselec3onofthesa3sfactorysolu3ontrivial.”
(YehudaE.Kalay,Architecture'sNewMedia:Principles,Theories,andMethodsofComputer‐AidedDesign(Cambridge,Mass.:MITPress,2004),pp.5‐25)
In Kalay’s article, this method is much better than starting a design with randomly playing around with the shapes. However through the process of changing shapes of one object more inspiration and un-defined problems may come out. It maybe a good way to start a design but not to solve design problems.